...Was it, asked Gandhi, of such people that Pope wrote: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs...or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; To doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Sole judge of truth,...

...of a middle state, Being darkly wise and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs...or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast . . . Sole judge of truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest and riddle of the world!2 Yet despite...

...middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs...or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance,...

...confronts the reader with the riddle with which Pope saw man in general wrestling in all eternity: "He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; / In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast."81 In the Preface to The Triumvirate, Griffith says that Triglyph's comments, "if rightly apprehended,...

...that the planets revolve around the sun. 37. Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man"; the poem continues: He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to dream himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reas'ning but...

...rudely great With too much knowledge for the sceptic s side With too much weakness for the stoic's side He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or a beast Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Yet...